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ABOUT JEWISH HERITAGE RESEARCH GROUP IN BELARUS
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For many years already, after the start of democratic transformations in Belarus, we have been witnessing an increased interest of the Jews, who are living in this country, in studying their spiritual and historical roots, in preservation and researching the richest heritage of more than a million-strong Jewish population, who had inhabited this land before the awful times of Holocaust. In the spring of 2002, representatives of several Jewish organizations made a decision to establish the Jewish Heritage Research Group in Belarus. Thus, the efforts of the local Jewish community in studying and keeping the Jewish history in Belarus have been united. The Group comprises professional genealogists, historians, guides, translators and a plenty of volunteers, who are not indifferent to the problems and tasks facing the JHRG. Jewish Heritage Research Group.
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Belarus Map
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During 2003-2004, the JHRG volunteers visited more than 100 settlements of Belarus. Based on the collected materials, they published a map "Jewish heritage of Belarus," reflecting the latest and most authentic data on location of Jewish cemeteries, buildings of synagogues and yeshivas, and Holocaust monuments in towns and cities of Belarus. The photos of these sites may be found in the web-site "Jewish Heritage." The work on gathering data about the Jewish heritage in Belarus will be continued by JHRG into the future. One of priority directions of activities of the JHRG is restoration of objects of the Jewish heritage in the country. Through their own efforts, the JHRG members restored ancient Jewish cemeteries in the settlements of Mir, Rakov, Druja, Gorki; monuments were erected in Holocaust sites in Volozhin, Mir, and Druja. The work is underway to restore the building of the mother of all yeshivas in the Eastern Europe located in the city of Volozhin and built in 1806.
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